Ifunanya Ibekwe has been voted University Of Arizona Women Basketball best player in the last ten (10) years.
Ifunanya Ibekwe, who became the first ever basketballer to record 55 double-doubles, was announced winner after days of voting by fans across the world.
Benjamin Ebong and Augustina Unamba have emerged winners in the male and female categories respectively of the 2020 Nigerian Freestyle Football Championship, which is part of the Freestyle UNLOCKED Africa 2020.
Benjamin Ebong and Augustina Unamba receive 150,000 Naira each.
The second place winners, the 2017 champion, McCarthy Obanor (Men) and the reigning African Women Champion, Evelyn Okafor (Women), each receive 100,000 Naira.
The 3rd Place winners Prince Okereke (Men) and Treasure Nwoye (Women) receive 50,000 Naira each.
In addition, the 4th to 8th finalists in both categories receive 20,000 Naira.
The 2020 Nigerian Freestyle Football Championship, which held online came to an end on July 25, 2020.
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Aruna Quadri and Bode Abiodun have assisted Sporting CP to win its 37th title in the Portuguese national league [Table Tennis].
Sporting CP won their fifth championship trophy in a row after beating GD Toledos 3-0 in the 2nd leg of the final held at the High-Performance Center of Vila Nova de Gaia, after repeating the same margin in the first leg on Saturday, July 4.
Ndubuisi Egbo’s KF Tirana has emerged the 2019/2020 Albanian League champions [Kategoria Superiore] and have qualified for next season’s UEFA Champions League qualification stage.
KF Tirana were confirmed champions after second placed Kukesi lost 1-0 at Vllaznia on July 19, 2020.
Nneka Ede has purchased Portuguese clubside Lusitano Ginásio Clube, Futebol, SAD.
Starting in June 2020, Mrs. Nneka Ede has become the new owner of the 108-year-old club, which competes in the Campeonato de Portugal, the third division of Portugal’s football pyramid.
Mrs. Nneka Ede emerges as the first African woman to own a football club in Europe following her acquisition of Lusitano Ginásio Clube, Futebol, SAD and the second Nigerian to purchase a Portuguese club after businessman Kunle Soname bought Clube Desportivo Feirense in 2015.
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Victor Osimhen has emerged winner of the 2020 Marc-Vivien Foe prize, which crowns him as the best African player in French Ligue 1 for the 2019/2020 season.
The 21-year-old forward who scored 18 goals and recorded six assists in 38 appearances across all competitions during the campaign, becomes the youngest ever recipient of the Marc-Vivien Foe prize.
Named after late Cameroonian midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe, the late Cameroon and Olympique Lyonnais midfielder — twice an Africa Cup of Nations winner with the Indomitable Lions, passed away on the field during the 2003 Confederations Cup.
This yearly award is organized by Radio France International and France 24 to celebrate African players plying their trade in the French League.
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Simon Moses has been voted as the player of the year at his French Ligue 1 club – FC Nantes in the truncated 2019/2020 season.
In a statement by FC Nantes on May 27th 2020, Simon Moses scored the highest number of votes from the side’s fans. Simon got 40 percent of the votes cast by the 3,500 voters, according to the French team.
The 24-year-old winger joined FC Nantes from Levante in Spain last summer, the winger has played 30 matches and scored nine goals with eight assists.
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